Wednesday, May 20, 2015

A Trojan Feast - A Great New Book

I'm up to about page 60 of what is an excellent book. This is one definitely not to be missed.

I'll be reviewing it over at Mysterious Universe, as soon as I've read it.

And here's what Anomalist Books says about A Trojan Feast:

YOU'VE BEEN WARNED
Accept food from faeries, and you'll never
escape their realm, according to European folklore. Accept food from
Sasquatch and you will forever be trapped in the spirit world, according
to indigenous North American tales. And today, abductees-at least those
who have returned-often report being offered strange beverages from
their captors. Are these similarities mere coincidence, or is something
more at play?
In this outstanding example of scholarship on the
unknown, Joshua Cutchin has created the world's first survey and
analysis of the food and drink offered by aliens, faeries, and
Sasquatch. The offerings are often not what they appear to be: some
liquids have healing or aphrodisiac qualities, some foods expand
awareness, and there are ointments that reveal an invisible world.
Through his playful explorations of every possibility-from the outer
regions of space to the inner sanctum of the human mind-A TROJAN FEAST
offers new insight into our relationship with these strange creatures of
the outer edge.
"The humble subject of food in anomalistic
accounts serves, in Cutchin's measured, learned, and lucid argument, as
proof that high strangeness events may be uncertain and discordant, but
not incomprehensible." - Thomas E. Bullard, folklorist (ret.), Indiana
University, Bloomington
"Joshua Cutchin has brought together a
contemplative and truly unique folkloric analysis of the way that food
and drink fits into the broader narrative of purported strange
phenomena. In doing so, Cutchin provides, in the very truest sense,
'food for thought.'" - Micah Hanks, author of "Magic, Mysticism and the
Molecule"
JOSHUA CUTCHIN is a native of North Carolina with a
long interest in forteana. He holds a Masters in Music Literature and a
Masters in Journalism from the University of Georgia, and currently
works as a public affairs specialist in the southeast. In addition to
his media work, Cutchin is also a published composer and maintains an
active performing schedule as a jazz and rock tuba player, having
appeared on eight albums and live concert DVDs. A TROJAN FEAST is his
first book.

2 comments:

This happened to me during an experience with a grey. It asked me if I liked ice-cream, I immediately said yes (even though I'm not really partial to it), and it placed in my hand a small spongy pellet, which positively reeked of ice-cream, it felt like the smell was filling the whole room.I don't remember eating it, but as the being walked away I asked it (again without really thinking about it) "Are you cool?", it replied "No", I asked "Why not?" and the reply came back "Because I don't like ice-cream".Weird I know, I spent a long time trying to figure out what it meant.